Legal name changes have allowed hundreds of UK sex offenders to stay off the police radar. Between 2019 and 2021 alone, 729 perpetrators were missing or wanted, the BBC public broadcaster reported on Wednesday.
The British House of Commons will discuss legislation this Thursday that would ban sex offenders from changing their names. “The current reporting system is clearly not working,” said Labor MP Sarah Champion. “The sheer magnitude of the violations and disappearances of sex offenders is a scandal of which the public is unaware.”
The existing laws are too lax, as it is up to the perpetrators to report changes. Champion criticized that new documents could help convicts find jobs, for example by working with children. The MP represents the constituency of Rotherham in northern England, where at least 1,400 children were sexually assaulted between 1997 and 2013.
Source: Krone
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